Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider - Volume 10, Issue 12

Credentialing & Peer Review Legal Insider, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Navigating the pitfalls of APP credentialing and competency assessments

The expanding role of APPs in healthcare has forced hospitals to find creative ways to appropriately credential and evaluate practitioners

The role

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Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

HIPAA/HITECH: How the changes impact the medical staff services department

December 1, 2013

Although HIPAA has been around since 1996, it's only become a more familiar term in healthcare since the implementation of the Privacy Rule in 2001. The Privacy Rule was designed to specifically address the protection of an individual's personal health information (PHI), including the medical...

Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider - Volume 10, Issue 12

Supreme Court of North Dakota affirms summary judgment in favor of health system regarding physician’s claims for denial of privileges

December 1, 2013

The Supreme Court of North Dakota affirmed a state district court's decision to grant a health system's motion for summary judgment regarding a physician's claims against it for defamation, tortious interference with a prospective business advantage, and violations of North Dakota state...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Medical Staff Briefing, December 2013

December 1, 2013

Bringing patients and providers together

International organization improves communication by inviting patients to the table

Communication-whether among physicians, between physicians and nurses, or between physicians

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Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Is your medical staff office driving a Toyota? A look at process, credentialing, and privileging

December 1, 2013

Over many decades, Toyota Motor Corporation developed a Lean production to standardize work and reap the benefit of improved methodologies that impact the quality of a product. The base aims of standardized work are to impact and improve customer satisfaction while eliminating wasted,...

Medical Staff Briefing - Volume 23, Issue 12

Joint Commission on OPPE/FPPE

December 1, 2013

For most medical staffs, OPPE and FPPE have become everyday parlance. Others still think of them as four-letter words. Now, several years after OPPE and FPPE were added to The Joint Commission's standards for hospitals, some facilities are still struggling to perfect their practices.

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